'American Sniper' is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.
Matt TaibbiConspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
Matt TaibbiEverybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
Matt TaibbiI get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
Matt Taibbi